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- \ _ V - - ' . : The Pageland Journal Published Wednesday Mornings C. M. Tin ker, Proprietor .Subscription Price - - $1.00 Entered us second class mail mailer at the post office at Pagoland, S. C., under the Postal Act of March 3, 1879. November 25, 1914. Nothing to he thankful for! Fiddlesticks and lomwalkers! He thankful that a merciful God hasn't snapped the brittle thread and dropped you into endless eternity with the breath of your ungrateful grumblings still warm on your lips. Thank Hun that justice has not been tie.tit out to you according to/jour ignoble conduct. Praise God with jour puny wool gathered soul that your unprofitable existetice is allowed to continue and that all your complainings and ungrateful thoughts and acts have not brought the death you so much deserve. Give praise that you still have health and strength to complain in thundering tones of the hard times and low cotton. There are a thousand thkig? to lm thankful for, and totnor row, the national thanksgiving day, should he observed by every human who has received anything from the storehouse of God during the twelve months that have passed. The docto: s c'aim that people imv lh?>m 1'itl it' <ii .ill , ..fc, .... ... IUV1I, II 4?i .ill, (l .U till' preachers think tin it money comes from the truck oil cotton, l?nt here is one who doesn't he lieve :i word of either. We are convinced ihnt the deluded souls who try to inula* ;? living oui of paper and ink and the local hap penings are, in truth the ones who gel their money from the never realized surplus. Some men do not believe that a sub is a debt. They think of it as "of little lhT portance because small, as something to be paid if convenient, but if not convenient "Oh, well, I'll see about it before long." Fortunately for quite a ood many of us, /he number of those who think this way is growing smaller each year. Many good " men pay for their paper just as rpornliirli' ?ii itm <-11 - ^ . J IIJ IIIV J till i* I V.M 1 ?l round. Then on the other hand there are quite a gobd many who don't give a darn whether they ever pay or not, just so all the papers do not black-list their names. Western Judge on Wife Beating A western judge is credited with the following utterance when a man convicted of wifebeating was before him and whined that he had to beat his wife because she wouldn't obev him; "If it was not for the dignity of the office ! hold ! would tell vou, sirA that you are a cowardly cur; a beastly, disgusting imitation of a human being; a miser able, contemptible, worthless thing, made in the outward shape of a man, but with the mental and moral instincts of a hyena; a vile, odious, abominable loathsome, villainous, execrable, pusillanimous, daddinged reptile not fit to be mentioned In the same breath with a skunk. But as it is I will give you the full term allowed by the law, in the common jail of this rnnntv <irwl nnl..r ...... \/IUVI J\/ll |>lll on a diet of bread and water and God grant that it may choke your ugly, rope-deserving throat, every mouthful of it. Take the execrable ding busted creature out of my sight, officer, before I tall upon him and make him look like a plate of raw hash wearing a hat. He is so mean that I would'nt speak to him if I met him in hell and he had a chunk of ice in his hands as big as my head." \ HQ A f.A ' CONSTRUCTION OF A CULVERT Consideration of Economy and Safety Demands Employment of O'.hsr Materia! Than Wood. By far the greater number of culverts and bridges on our public roads have a Bpan of less thJTn fifty feet. In the past these structures have, in general, been built of wood, but lumber so exposed In this dry climate is subject to rapid decay, writes Walter Graham in Denver Field and Farm. Consequently these structures require a great deal of repair and frequent renewals. The ever-increasing price of lumber Is making the further use of wood for this class of structures more and more indefensible. The loads which our highway structures are called upon to sustain are also lncreas itig. In many of our agricultural localities the movement of steam road rollers and heavy traction engines is seriously hampered because of weak bridges and culverts. Consideration of economy and safety demands the use of other materials than wood in the construction of culverts and K-J J uriuges. Durability Is of the greatest economic importance. In many sections a large proportion of the annual road levy Is expended in repair and renewal of wooden culverts and minor bridges, and it is not unusual to find this practice defended on the ground that the county or district cannot afford to build the higher-priced permanent culverts. This notion Is simply a false sense of economy. True, the first cost of the permanent structure is greater, but there the outlay ends, while with wooden culverts there is a large an nual outlay for repair, as well as frequent renewals. Anyone interested it! road improvement will find it most interesting to secure the following data for his own county or district: Tli' number of culverts, cost of labor and material for repair and renewal each year, average life of wooden culvert * and the ordinary life of wooden britl^w floors. Then he could compute how long it would be before the actual present expenditure would pay for per manent culverts. hater improvements in the manufacture of iron have made this materia! more generally available for use in cu! vert construction. A special quality of iron, very low in enrbon, resists cor rosion so well as to make its use ad visable in many cases, and this Is an important point for the Irrigated districts. The cutting away of the soil by the water at the inlet or outlet of a clay or cement pipe is often respoqribte1 tor it", progressive breakdown and parlfa-1 _cxposhr.es of this character are extremely dangerous In time nf freshet to any form of construction It is doubtful whpthor the moWltr r>f practical roadbullders have given consideration to the fact that by building suitable wing walls for any bridge or pipe they can very largely Increase its carrying capacity. A V-shaped entrance-way so increases the velocity of the water as tc enable a given conduit to perform the work of one of much larger diameter which has an* end wall at right ancles to the flow BAD ROADS VERY EXPENSIVE Value of Horses and Mules in One County in Missouri Deteriorated 3 Per Cent Annually. From the 1910 United States census reports it is found that the value of horses and mules in one county In Missouri was $831,089. The value of farm vehicles, harness and other oquipment was $370,000, making a totoi * 1 or\r. ncn ? CI I vi.-'Mi.uoii. i un inrDflll lUttiio of the county cause all animals, vehicles and harness to deteriorate throe per cent per annum faster than they would on improved roada. Three per eent of JS1.20fi.0R9 is js3fi.1R2 This is only one source of loss which the county must bear even' year on account of had roads. Again, the cost per ton mile for hauling on the roads in tlio county is 30 cents, while the coBt on good roads Is only 14 cents per ton mile, thus saving 1(1 cents per ton mile. There are about one hundred thousand tons hnnlfH an nvopoon nt miles In the county; 75 per cent of this amount would be over improved roads provided the present bond issue carries. Seventy-flve per cent of the 100.000 tons equal 75.000 tons. This amount hauled five miles represents 375,000 ton miles; 375.000 tons multiplied by 10 cents equals $00,000 plus $30,182 equals $00,182 total annual loss on account of present roads us compared to imnrovod roads. This annual loss d < liminated if the main or hea\..., traveled roads of the county were improved. mew nodoi ror new rork State. New York will construct during the current year nearly four hundred and thirty miles of Improved roads of the best types under the'dlrectlon of the state highway department. Of this aggregate about one hundred and twenty-six miles will oonslst of concrete roads, 42 miles of brick roads, 229 miles of bituminous macadam roads, 226 miles of waterbound macadam road, and about six miles of miscellaneous typos. This mileage comprises the roads which have been put under eonVract to June 1. [TfieYOUTH'S Better Than I I Then the Family Page, a ran | Girls' Page, Doctor's Advice, | Travel, Science, Education. I minds, the best the world can | ' CUT THIS OUT and send it (or name of this nnper) with $2.00 for The COMPANION for 1915, and we will send FRFF All the iwuei of THE COMrVCiEj paNION for the remaining weeks of 1914. rprr the companion home r ALL CALENDAR for 1916. TLICM The 52 Weeklr Issues of inunt thecompanionfa*his. SUBSCRIPTIONS RECE A Full Line ' of stock Powders, Liniments and Veterinary Medicines kept on hand at ail times. Calls answer ed day or night for the cash. G. H. Watts. Veterinary surgfftn. Paccland, S. C FIB ^ Cannot burr 1 / \ If churches, schoo / I the country. PAGFXAND HAS ^WWWWWWj iWhy NotlJ ^ Home Jroi ? 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Send to-day to The Youth's Com* panion, Boston, Mass., for THREE CURRENT ISSUES?FREE [VED AT THIS OFFICE VI. M. JOHNSON ATTOKNEY AT LAW Will be in Pajjeland Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of each ?Vek. Hanna & Hunley Attorneys CHESTER FTP. U >. S. C. LEPROOF L ??never leak?look well?and E . They cover the best homes, gj Is and public buildings all over B For Sale by g tow ARE CO. ^wwwvwvf c The Best I ind meal ^ i Molasses ^ cream cheese ^ h Onions ^ Cabbage ? et Potatoes ? inquet Flour ^ i Square Coffee ^ ind Brazil Nuts. v ^ 1 seed and country Produce. ^ upply Co. I WUUVUVVV) triced id Ware I Discount line of QUALITY 5 M WARE. Every ears. ure Aluminum. Made ;ht in weight, they never asiest utensils to cook ; ier than it was a year ago will give a 1 0 per cent /s. v complete. Get a few over. Remember every >0 years. IRDWARE CO. Big s Beg; When the war broke out, a say money is scarce, so coi you buy. We are saving others mone Mill feed, ilour, meat, salt, rr Clothing, Dress goods, Unic most anything you need CATO COM Per J. R. C !s urn | Toilet Art ^ School Bo b Statione S Paints anc | Soft Drill | Cigars ^ and the other things you expect | Pageland D toGOOOOOOOggS ago j Don't The old fiddlers O the Pag eland sch um Nov. 27th. Do at 7 o'clock and mu at 7:30 o'clock The following cash priz 1st. Best music rendered 2nd. 14 Best Banjo music Best Guitar Best Duet on any (Any one wishing to ( write J. V. Thompson < Pageland, S. C. Admission 15 an I Moved To T] I have moved my stock home two miles east o( ; I expect to add a com pi Goods and Notions, wh sell goods as cheap a! Nft clerk tn nav. nn l-m ? - ?- %v J'*.* j y At v/ 11 v/ to buy. Won t have tc only when I nave a ci sale but sell cheap all me a chance. Yours I .T. B. W The Busy Store ii >/ HHHiBHHHHHHHIilHHHHHHHHHHHHHi / sale in nd is still on. They mpare prices before y. Why not you? ieal & oats. Besides 1 >n Suits and in fact [PANY ' ato | \ as i icles K ?oks | T ? I Oils K ,KS | I to find at a drug store. ^ rug Co. | sooooooooatS Wl^MB Forget onvention at ool Auditoriors will open tsic will begin I :es will be given bv Violin $5.00 $2.00 rendered $2.00 $2.0<> instrument $2 00 mter Contest, may or H. B. Redfearn, d 25 cents he Sticks I nl rinnrlc trv mtr I \;i \JUUU13 l\l 11 I Jf g Pageland where lete line ol Dry ere I know 1 can 5 I can in town. use rent, no wood stay in the store Listomer. No cost the time. Give or business.